Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710

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Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long title An Act for establishing a General Post Office for all Her Majesties Dominions, and for settling a weekly Sum out of the Revenues thereof for the Service of the War and other Her Majesties Occasions. [b]
Citation
Territorial extent  Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent 16 May 1711
Commencement 1 June 1711 [e]
Repealed1 May 1909
Other legislation
Amends Post Office Act 1660
Repeals/revokes Post Office Act 1695
Amended by
Repealed by Post Office Act 1908
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 [a] (9 Ann. c. 11) [c] was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which established post offices in the colonies [1] and allotted its weekly revenues for the ongoing war and other uses.

Contents

The act repealed the Post Office Act 1695 (c. 31 (S)), and united the post offices of England and Scotland under two Postmasters General of Great Britain. [2] : 347 

Subsequent developments

The act, except the last two sections, was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116).

Section 45 (section 91 in Ruffhead's Edition). [3] was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Revenue Officers' Disabilities Removal Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 22).]

So much of the act as was unrepealed was repealed by section 92 of, and schedule 2 to, the Post Office Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 48).

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Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ These words are printed against this act in the second column of the first schedule to the Short Titles Act 1896, which is headed "Title".
  3. 1 2 This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm
  4. ↑ This is the citation in The Statutes at Large
  5. ↑ Section 2.

References

  1. ↑ Max Savelle, Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824, p.43 (1974)
  2. ↑ Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge: Vol. VIII. London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. 1901.
  3. ↑ Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes passed in the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1874. London. 1874. Page 163. Footnote 1.
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